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Metapuzzle: N.E.W.T.s

1. How many total instances of the letter S appear in all the answers?
(S) 7
(C) 9
(T) 11
(P) 13
(I) 15


2. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(R) An album distributed by Def Jam Recordings
(E) A TV show directed by Jack Bender
(N) A novel published by Bantam Spectra
(A) A movie with special effects by Mark R. Byers
(O) A comic book written by Ed Brubaker


3. How many of the answers contain a letter that is worth at least 4 points in Scrabble?
(T) 1
(I) 2
(S) 3
(A) 4
(L) 5


4. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(T) A type of quadrilateral
(L) A type of prime number
(E) A famous combinatorial game
(H) A well-known function
(N) The last name of a Fields medalist


5. How long is the shortest answer, not including spaces?
(I) 4 letters
(M) 5 letters
(S) 6 letters
(E) 7 letters
(A) 8 letters


6. Which of the following appears in one of the answers?
(C) The name of a character from the Old Testament
(W) The name of a Sesame Street Muppet
(O) The name of an Olympian deity
(D) The name of a Von Trapp sibling
(T) The name of one of the seven Dwarfs


7. How many of the answers have a vowel as their second letter?
(R) 2
(E) 3
(S) 4
(C) 5
(L) 6


8. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(R) a noun for an object commonly made of metal
(U) a loanword from Japanese
(I) an adjective that might be used to describe a room
(Q) an adverb that often appears in sports writing
(B) a preposition that is frequently used in song titles


9. How long is the longest answer, not counting spaces?
(U) 9 letters
(S) 11 letters
(N) 12 letters
(O) 13 letters
(L) 26 letters


10. How many different vowels have the property that they appear three times in some answer?
(B) 0
(A) 1
(S) 2
(I) 3
(T) 4


11. How many instances of double letters (like the T's in "LETTERS") are there in the answers?
(O) 1
(A) 2
(N) 3
(Y) 4
(L) 5


12. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(K) An Oscar-winning movie
(O) A Grammy-winning album
(F) An Emmy-winning TV show
(L) A Tony-winning play
(G) A Heisman-winning football player's surname


13. Which of the following is an anagram of some of the letters in one answer?
(H) FECUND WIG
(T) BED HUGER FISH
(E) TURNIP SLAY
(I) MALTY SOTS
(A) LLAMA GROPER


14. How long is the shortest word in any of the answers?
(R) 2 letters
(M) 3 letters
(T) 4 letters
(S) 5 letters
(E) 6 letters


15. Which of the following describes the letters in one of the answers?
(A) 4 consonants, 5 vowels
(E) 5 consonants, 2 vowels
(D) 3 consonants, 5 vowels
(P) 8 consonants, 3 vowels
(N) 1 consonant, 4 vowels


16. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(G) A Chinese dynasty
(O) A technical term in Quidditch
(E) A breed of terrier
(R) A French pastry
(N) A centuries-old poem


17. How many total instances of the letter T appear in all the answers?
(D) 2
(C) 3
(G) 4
(N) 5
(A) 6


18. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(R) A complete sentence
(O) A Latin motto
(M) A Game of Thrones episode
(P) A musical tempo marking
(C) A Final Fantasy character


19. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(M) a synonym of "skullduggery"
(I) a synonym of "impenitent"
(K) a synonym of "fete"
(S) a synonym of "gourmand"
(E) a synonym of "propinquity"


20. Which of the following is one of the answers?
(O) An answer containing a 4-letter palindrome as a substring
(N) A phrase of four or more words
(E) An answer containing A, E, I, O, and U
(R) A word containing the letter B
(D) A word that starts and ends with the same letter


21. Which of the following letters appears the fewest times in the answers?
(T) C
(S) K
(A) W
(L) V
(E) H


22. Which of the following letters appears the most times in the answers?
(E) M
(D) D
(S) N
(T) T
(R) G